Microsoft Surface Pro 12-inch review

I have always had a soft spot for The surface Pro X. The tablet was the insomnia, lighter, weight and lack of fan that I always wanted to make Microsoft, but when he came out nearly six years ago, Windows was not ready to deal with the arm chip inside – and vice versa. It prevents slow performance problems and the surface application of the Pro X from adhering to its beautiful design. It was the heart of the heart.

Microsoft again tries to master Surface Pro with $ 799 12 -inch version of its tablet and hybrid laptop This gives up the fan and uses the latest Snapdragon X Plus chip of Qualcomm. This time, it is heating my heart instead of breaking it, thanks to the redesign of the entire tablet, the life of the battery.

The result of the repair is a tablet that combines some of the best design elements that you will find on iPad or Samsung devices, with Windows ingenuity. While the competition is trying to copy Surface Pro for years, Microsoft has now borrowed one of the best tablets to improve their laptop and hybrid tablet to the time.

last year Surface Pro 11 (Now the PRO 13 -inch surface) had the same basic design that Microsoft used Since Surface Pro 8 in 2021,, While venting the airflow wrapped around the upper half of the structure that your fingers tend to find if you use it as a tablet. Change the most obvious design to Surface Pro 12 inches, unlike the smaller display, is that it does not have these openings. It is closed and opposite in a way that is the iPad, so it feels soft.

I love this new design. The lack of fans allowed Microsoft to move forward with this change, which really hopes to stick to all future models because I never want to use Surface Pro with a fan again.

While Kickstand has not changed significantly, this new round design also enables some major changes in how the pen and the keyboard work on Surface Pro 12 inches. Microsoft has transferred the pen and charging to the top of this smaller surface, such as Samsung Tab Galaxy devices. It is more convenient than having to search the keyboard and violin to remove the surface pen, and Microsoft has been able to use a strong magnet enough that the pen did not drop once inside my bag over the past few weeks.

However, this means that if you are in a tablet position but do not use the pen activity, it is often on the way. The keyboard cover will not sit with the back of the surface if you fold it again while connecting the pen; There is a gap in the top where it is on the pen, and you feel bored a boredom. And if you use Surface Pro as a pure disk, but do not use the pen, it is likely that you end up breaking your fingers on it or shaking the loose button slightly. It is not a big problem, especially when you think that Surface Pro Ships without a keyboard ($ 149) or pen ($ 129), and you have to buy it separately or in a $ 249 package. Perhaps most people will not bother the pen, but if you do this, this is something you should be aware of.

Microsoft’s re -determination allowed some important changes on the keyboard on Surface Pro 12 inches. Although it still clicks in place on the bottom edge of the tablet, it is now completely flat. The keyboards for previous models were a second magnetic attachment point at the bottom of the front frame, giving the keyboard an optional light angle. Without it, the keyboard feels more stable.

Previous Surface Pro also had a lot of flexibility, which always puts me using Surface Pro on work trips where I will write thousands of words for stories. The new keyboard has no flexibility at all. Even in my bosom, it seems more stable to write, although Kickstand prevents you from returning to your legs as you do with a regular laptop, and you soon get used to a slightly smaller size. The other big change is that it no longer lined with the cantara tissue on the palm of the palm. The rear cover still contains alcantara, but Microsoft is now using plastic to rest instead of the fabric that can be easily dirty. I think I am still the best touch of the cantara palm, though.

You cannot use the keyboard wirelessly as you can with a 13 -inch flexible keyboard, and Microsoft has given up the haptic touch plate. I have never used the wireless option, but the lack of Haptics makes the touch plate feel more gentle, and this is something that has missed a lot during the past few weeks.

One thing that you did not miss is the 13 -inch OLED screen. I really hate the beloved effect of OLED, especially about the black text against a white background. 12 -inch Microsoft uses a regular 3: 2 pixel LCD screen, and while it is slightly less resolution and a 90 Hz plate instead of 120 Hz, it is much better to read the text. I hope the edges are much lower, but Microsoft made it at least the same size throughout the 12 -inch screen, so they feel a little less than 13 inches less.

Watching with Microsoft metaphor ideas from other tablets, the company re -placing the rear camera on Surface Pro 12 inches so that it is in the corner like Samsung tablets or iPad devices from Apple. I still do not kill them to take pictures using a tablet, but it makes sense like this, rather than focusing on the long edge, so that you can at least keep the surface to the heads if you really want to take pictures or videos.

The introduction camera is the introduction of 1080 pixels that is not superior this time, so it does not have an effect that does not spoil the fish’s eye and framing It was found on Surface Pro 13 inches. I used it in a lot of calls, and although I am still not admired by the way the eye contact feature is in kind, other Windows Studio effects are very useful to improve your lighting or background lack of clarity automatically.

Inside 12 inches, Microsoft Chip Snapdragon x Plus is used from Qualcomm. It is an arm -based processor, and this means that the applications will simulate unless the developer is originally assembled for the ARM64. This was a big problem with Surface Pro X in 2019, but a lot has changed over the past 12 months, not to mention six years.

Most of the applications I use on a daily basis are now the original ARM64. Large exceptions include Discord and Premiere Pro. While Discord was busy adding Advertising currencies Instead of issuing an original arm version of its application, it may be about to change. I was using a Discord Early Discord Building early, and it completely solves all slow performance problems.

It is not possible to say the same about Premiere Pro, though. While Adobe created the ARM64 version of Photoshop, you still have to install the Intel -PRO version. This is completely unused, but I don’t recommend any arm -based machines to use Premiere Pro until Adobe treats this.

Snapdragon X Plus chip contains 12 -inch Surface Pro, a 13 -inch LCD core, four cores less than the 12 -core OLED variable. I was using a 10 -nucleus laptop on the past year, and this did not feel Surface Pro is slower.

Since this is a Copilot Plus computer, Microsoft also uses the NPU unit included in the Qualcomm chip to enable a set of dental features in Windows. The controversial summons feature is now available, which takes clips of everything you do mostly on Surface Pro to create a scrolling schedule. I found to remember to be Creeping, smart, and convincingBut this is not a big reason for buying a Copilot Plus computer. I liked the use of improved Windows Search with which artificial intelligence works, which allows me to search for the text inside files or images, and find documents more quickly.

If you are gay and most of your work is in the browser or includes the original ARM64 applications, then Surface Pro 12 inch looks like performing a compressed laptop in a tablet. I found that I get nine hours of battery life with a mixed browser use, applications like Photoshop and Slack, and the individual difference may connect here or there.

I was never concerned about Surface Pro 12 inches, and in some days I used it on a working day for eight hours and I still remain a 30 percent battery. I was waking up the next day and still has 30 percent, or near it, ready for next day. Microsoft has also cleared the Connect Connect, but there are two USB-C outlets that can be used to charge Surface Pro. I just use USB-C to charge my devices, so I don’t think I will miss the surface communication port other than the stylish style that connects it in the 13-inch.

Although Surface Pro is great to appeal immediately and not to deplete the battery life in your bag or overnight, if you do not use it for a few days during the weekend, you will have to wait 30 seconds or so until you are ready to use on Monday morning. This is not a big problem, but the iPad never goes to a deep sleep mode like this, and on a few occasions, Surface Pro resumed on Monday and the Windows Hello camera failed at work. I kept receiving a message “An error event”, but restarting the device returned to life again.

I have used this professional surface on a train, on Arikti, on an office, and in bars and cafes over the past few weeks. I still find that I have to adjust the position or my body to use Surface Pro in my lap due to Kickstand, but he almost feels that this slight settlement is worth using a small computer while moving.

Surface Pro also displays some of the best parts of competing tablets in a piece of devices that resemble a lot of Microsoft. I was using this professional surface to mode the tablet often as a result, simply due to the smaller size and ease of switching between the conditions of the laptop and the tablet. The operating system and applications still seem to be more than a laptop. Microsoft also sells Surface Pro without a keyboard, as if it was a pure tablet, but as always, you really need to buy a $ 150 keyboard to cancel the best experience insurance.

This pays pricing to 950 dollars, which is more than you pay for a 13 -inch superficial laptop, and close to the price of $ 999 for the surface laptop 7. While the surface pricing mode is It seems more complicated than everI love small computers, and Surface Pro contains 12 inches on this attractiveness that makes me want to continue to capture it for today.

I still want to see Microsoft works to improve the tablet of the tablet in Windows 11 with a similar mode What was present in Windows 8. But even without these improvements, the 12 -inch Surface Pro is the closest to Microsoft has got a dream of a lightweight computer you can throw under your arm and carry it throughout the day without worrying about the battery life. This is still not perfect, but it is not the heart that the PRO X.

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